San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-07-28

1000 voters). II these men were put h
oultivating land. 90 acres per man, ant
make an average crop Of corn, say 40 bush
els per acre, we would have 100. 200 bushel
Of corn, enough to bread the county for Il
months, II We had had that much stores
away last winter we would not have fearet
the drouth in the spring. Judge Kone say
we pay for public and private schools veal
$4,000. The amount We spend for whisk,
(Sl2O, 0O0) would run our schools 10 years
I. would build US two colleges better thar
Coronal Institute In every Commissioner
precinct every year, 1t would build good
school house on every mile square In the
county 1t would pay our taxes for -four
years in advance, il would give to every
family horse and buggy valued at Sl20.
According to our assessment roll for 1886
we spend for liquor every 81 years the value
of all the town and city real estate and in
GLIDING improvements; every months the
value of all the carriages, buggies aud wag-
ons, all horses and mules every Is months,
every IS months the value Of oil the cattle,
every month the value of all the sheep,
every Q years the value Of all money. Now
If this calculation is not right Gin round
numbers or fgures) am not responsible for
it, but your own county, state and national
officials are; l. don't believe there is q sane
man who will say they are not correct.
Now let us force out this traffic that is suck
ing out our life blood aud our county and
state will soon be among the foremost in
the ranks ST prosperity. y A. B.
Important to the C0lOred People OF
Texas.
Can the colored voters of Texas be made
to believe Gov. Clinton B. Fisk ignorant, or
opposed to their best interestsP The fol-
loving letter of date June 22d from the great
philanthropist, Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, New
York, in answer to letter and request of
Rev. W. NJ. Leatherwood. of Waco, explains
ITSELF Gen. Fisk is the donor and founder
of the Fisk University for colored people,
at Nashville, which stands as a monument
to the charity of u great mind and bless
ing to the colored race:
To my colored .teilor citizens in Teas:
1 wish 1t were possible for me to reach the
ear of every colored voter in Texas with ON
appeal in behalf of prohibition. It is not
possible and am therefore constrained to
write you an open letter on this most impor-
tant subject. am led to write you now
because liquor dealers in your great State
are in the North pleading for help from
whiskey sellers to defeat prohibition in
Texas. These servants of the devil are mis-
the colored people of your
great State. They say that through your
votes they can defeat the amendment. They
say that the colored voters can be bought
with very little money, aud some whiskey
thrown in. They openly boast that you can
be deceived by their speakers, that you can
be made to believe that vote for prohibi-
ton would be a vote for re ensavement of
your people, for the throwing away of your
liberty. They wickedly lie about you. Don't
for moment listen to such foolish nonsense
AZ reinstatement. Slavery is dead, and no
man North or South would restore it, if he
could. Whiskey enslaves both body and
sonl. 1t is the chief enemy of mankind; it
destroys men by the ten thousands; itlnakes
home wretched; it keeps children in ignor-
ance, and fills the hearts of wives and moth
srs with consuming sorrow 1t makes men
brutal and ugly. 1t was beer and whiskey
mob that so outrageously treated Bishop
Turner in San Antonio. and rotten-egged
him and other coloredmen and their church.
IS because they were friends TO sobtiety |
md decency. -
or liberty, for better homes, for educated |
children, for manhood, and for God as
gainst the devil and all his works.
Only onco in lifetime will you have the
opportunity of doing so much for your
people as you will do by voting
o close every dram-shop in your magnifi-
ent State.
Let every colored voter in Texas do his
Whole duty on election day.
Vote for prohibition, and pray God to
i've the victory to the good cause.
Be true to duty, and to you will be given
lie credit of making Texas the banner State
a all the South. And you will by your ex-
mple inspire your brothers in all the other
tates to strike down the arch foe of man.
ind.
The moral development, intellectual adj
ancement and material prosperity of the
zoe are to be promoted by the prohibition
the liquor traffic.
Stand by your white friends who are
eeking the overthrow of whskey forever,
nd you will be standing up for your fami-
es, your country and your God.
I am faithfully your friend and brother,
CLINTON b. FISK.